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Several of the following examples are based on the
letter example
described in the
SDO documentation.
The examples assume the XML Schema for the letter is contained in a file
letter.xsd
and the letter instance is in the file
letter.xml.
These two files are reproduced here:

An instance of the XML DAS is first obtained from the
SDO_DAS_XML::create()
method,
which is a static method of the
SDO_DAS_XML
class.
The location of the xsd is passed as a parameter.
Once we have an instance of the XML DAS initialised
with a given schema,
we can use it to load the instance document using the
loadFile()
method.
There is also a
loadString()
method if you want to load an XML
instance document from a string.
If the instance document loads successfully,
you will be returned an object of type
SDO_DAS_XML_Document,
on which you can call the
getRootDataObject()
method to get the SDO data object which is the root
of the SDO data graph.
You can then use SDO operations to change the graph.
In this example we alter the
date,
firstName, and
lastName properties.
Then we use the
saveFile()
method to write the changed document back to the file system.
The saveFile method has an optional extra integer argument which if specified
will cause the XML DAS to format the XML, using the integer as the amount to
indent by at each change in level on the document.

The previous example loaded the document from a file.
This example shows how to create an SDO data graph in memory.
In this example it is then saved to an XML string.
Furthermore, because the letter contains both structured and
unstructured content, it uses
the Sequence API
as well assignments to properties to construct the data graph.

The
createDocument()
method on the XML DAS returns a document object
with a single root data object corresponding to an empty document element.
The element name of the document element is known from the schema file.
If there is any ambiguity about what the document element is, as there can be
when more than one schema has been loaded into the same XML DAS,
the element name and the namespace URI can be passed to the
createDocument()
method.

This will emit the following output (line breaks have been inserted for readability):

This third example shows you how to set the XML version and
encoding on the document object.
These will be used when the XML is written out.
If no XML declaration is wanted at all
(perhaps you want to generate the XML as a string to embed
in something) then you can use the
setXMLDeclaration()
method to suppress it.

Note the presence of the
any
element in the definition.
This first schema defines the
jungle
complex type as containing a sequence of
any other type.
The other types that the example will use are defined in a
second schema file:

These two schema files are loaded into the XML DAS with first the
create()
and
addTypes()
methods.
The
createDataObject()
method is used to create three separate data objects.
In each case the namespaceURI and typename of the type are passed to the
createDataObject()
method: in this example the namespace URI is blank because no
namespace is used in the schema.
Once the three data objects - representing a bear, a panther and a snake -
have been created, a document object is created with the
createDocument()
method.
In this case there is no ambiguity about what the document element of the
document should be - as the second schema file only defines complex types,
the document element can only be the global
jungle
element defined
in the first schema.
This document will have a single root data object corresponding to an
empty document element jungle.
As this is an open type, properties can be added at will.
When the first assignment is made to $do->bear,
a property
bear
is added to the root data object:
likewise for the next two assignments.
When the document is written out by the
saveString()
method, the resulting document is:

This example is intended to illustrate how you can find the
element name and
namespace of the document element from the XML Document object, and
the SDO type and namespace from the root data object of the XML data
object, and how they relate to one another.
This can be difficult to understand because there are four method calls:
two can be made against the Document object, and two that can be made
against any data object including the root data object.
Because of the rules that define how the SDO model is derived
from the XML model, when the data object concerned is the
root object that represents the document object for the document,
only three possible values can come back from these
four method calls.

The two method calls that can be made against the document
are getRootElementName() and
getRootEelementURI().
These return the element name and namespace of the document element,
respectively.

The two method calls that can be made against any data object are
getTypeName()
and
getTypeNamespaceURI().
These return the SDO type name and type namespace of the data object,
respectively.

Always, calling getRootElementURI()
on the document object will return the same value as
calling getNamespaceURI() on the
root data object.
Essentially, the information is all derived from the first few lines of the
schema file,
where there are three distinct pieces of information.
For illustration, here again are the first few lines of the
letter.xsd that we used above.

FormLetter, the name of the complex type of the document element.
This is also the name of the SDO type of the root data object.

http://letterSchema, the namespace to which the document element belongs.
This is also the namespaceURI of the SDO type of the root data object.

It is part of the XML-SDO mapping rules that
when the SDO model is built from the schema file,
the typename and namespaceURI of the SDO types for the root element
are taken
from those of the complex type of the document element, where it exists.
Hence in this example the typename of the root data object is FormLetter.
In the event that there is no separate complex type definition
for the document element, when the type is defined inline and is
anonymous,
the SDO type name will be the same as the element name.

The following program loads the letter document and checks the
return values from each of the four calls.

<?php/** * Finding out what you can about the document and document element * This can be quite hard to understand because there are four calls * Two calls are made against the document * Two calls are made against the root data object and its model * Because of the SDO-XML mapping rules and how the SDO model is derived * from the XML model, only three possible values can come back from these four calls. * Always, $document->getRootElementURI() == (type of root data object)->namespaceURI * Essentially, it all comes form the first few lines of the xsd: * <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" * xmlns:letter="http://letterSchema" * targetNamespace="http://letterSchema"> * <xsd:element name="letters" type="letter:FormLetter"/> */

/** * The "root element name" is the element name of the document element * in this case 'letters' * This matches the 'name' attribute of the document element in the xsd and matches * the element name from the xml */echo "The document element name is " . $document->getRootElementName() . "\n";assert($document->getRootElementName() == 'letters'); // a property of the document

/** * The "root element URI" is the namespace part of the element name of the document element * in this case 'http://letterSchema' since 'letters' is in that namespace * This is taken from the xsd and matches the namespace picked up from the xml */echo "The document element is in the namespace " . $document->getRootElementURI() . "\n";assert($document->getRootElementURI() == 'http://letterSchema'); // a property of the document

/** * The type name is taken from the SDO model * The XML-SDO mapping rules make this either: * The name of the complexType if there is one (in this case there is) * The document element name if there no complexType * This is taken from the xsd */echo "The type name of the root data object is " . $root_do->getTypeName() . "\n";assert($root_do->getTypeName() == 'FormLetter');

/** * The type's namespaceURI is taken from the SDO model * The XML-SDO mapping rules ensure that this will always be the same as * the namepace URI of the document element */echo "The namespaceURI of the root data object is " . $root_do->getTypeNamespaceURI() . "\n";assert($root_do->getTypeNamespaceURI() == 'http://letterSchema');

?>

The output from this program is as follows:

The document element name is letters
The document element is in the namespace http://letterSchema
The type name of the root data object is FormLetter
The namespaceURI of the root data object is http://letterSchema

Example #6 Printing the SDO model

The XML DAS provides a simple means to see what types and properties
have been loaded. The php "print" or "echo" instruction will
print out the types and properties.